Definitions for schoolmaster
ˈskulˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stərschool·mas·ter

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. headmaster, schoolmaster, masternoun

   presiding officer of a school

2. schoolmasternoun

   any person (or institution) who acts as an educator

3. schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodusnoun

   food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. schoolmasternoun

   The person in charge of a school.

2. schoolmasterverb

   To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Schoolmasternoun

   One who presides and teaches in a school.

   Etymology: school and master.

   I, thy schoolmaster, have made thee more profit
   Than other princes can, that have more time
   For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. William Shakespeare.

   Adrian VI. was sometime schoolmaster to Charles V. Richard Knolles.

   The ancient sophists and rhetoricians lived ’till they were an hundred years old; and so likewise did many of the grammarians and schoolmasters, as Orbilius. Francis Bacon.

   A father may see his children taught, though he himself does not turn schoolmaster. Robert South, Sermons.

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1. schoolmaster

   A schoolmaster is a male teacher or the head of a school, typically a private or old-fashioned school. The term is usually used to refer to someone who has authority or control in matters of education and discipline in a school.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Schoolmasternoun

   the man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school

2. Schoolmasternoun

   one who, or that which, disciplines and directs

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Schoolmaster

   The word schoolmaster, or simply master, formerly referred to a male school teacher. This usage survives in British independent schools, both secondary and "preparatory", but is generally obsolete elsewhere. Where a school has more than one schoolmaster, a man in charge of the school is the headmaster, sometimes spelt as two words, "head master". This name survives in British independent schools, but it has been replaced by head teacher in most British publicly funded schools, although "headmaster" is often still used colloquially, particularly in grammar schools, and is equivalent to the principal in American schools. The term "headmaster" also survives in some American and Commonwealth independent schools. A range of other terms is derived from "schoolmaster" and "headmaster", including deputy headmaster, senior master' and second master, and housemaster, the schoolmaster in charge of a boarding school house. Some independent schools use other titles for the head of the teaching staff, including "High Master" and "Rector". The female equivalent of "schoolmaster" is schoolmistress, which is used with all the same prefixes.

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of schoolmaster in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of schoolmaster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of schoolmaster in a Sentence

1. H. L. Mencken:

   The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

2. Dr Kwakkel:

   I found one that is obviously a drawing of the face of a schoolmaster. You can recognize him from the teacher's hat on his head, it was obviously drawn by a student in class, seven centuries ago.

3. Antiphanes:

   Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

4. Walter Bagehot:

   A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=schoolmaster
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schoolmaster
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=schoolmaster
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmaster
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=schoolmaster